Texas police arrest Democrat campaigner after asking about his candidate’s party
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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Arrest-throws-Waller-County-voter-registration-13297719.php
A field director for Democratic congressional candidate Mike Siegel was arrested at the Waller County Courthouse Wednesday after he delivered a letter demanding the county update
the status of students at a nearby college whose registrations were thrown into question the day before.
Jacob Aronowitz, Siegel’s field director, was released after about two hours, according to Lisa Seger, the Democratic nominee for Texas House District 3, who arrived at the courthouse
after the arrest. The letter, addressed to County Judge Trey Duhon and Elections Administrator Christy Eason, took issue with Eason’s decision to require the students fill out a “change
in address” form to correct the registration issue.
The arrest stemmed from Aronowitz’s decision to take a photo of a clerk receiving the letter, apparently to confirm it had been received, Siegel said in a phone interview. The clerk
objected to having her picture taken and complained to a nearby bailiff, Siegel said. Aronowitz then called Siegel, who is an attorney.
Siegel said he heard Aronowitz repeatedly ask why he was being held and whether he was free to go. At one point, Aronowitz told a detaining officer that his lawyer, Siegel, was running
for Congress. “They say, what party is he from?’” Siegel said. “I don’t know why that was relevant.” Though Aronowitz was released, county officials kept his phone, according to Seger,
the state House candidate.
Confusion arose Tuesday on the nearby campus of Prairie View A&M University when it was discovered that thousands of students could have registered under the wrong address,
putting their voter registrations in jeopardy. Tuesday was the last day to register for the November elections.
The mixup stems partly from how students get their mail: Because the university does not have individual mailboxes for students on campus, it provides a single post office box for
every student. In 2016, a group of university officials, the county and the local political parties agreed to have students write down 700 or 100 University Drive as their residence when
registering to vote.
In the March primary election, however, Eason noticed the 700 University Drive address puts students in the City Hall precinct, not the one on campus. The officials decided to let
students vote at the wrong polling place — the one on campus — but required them to fill out a change in address form.
Siegel, who is running against Republican U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, said the arrest constituted “an abuse of power.” “There was no reason to arrest or detain (Aronowitz),”
he said.
Prairie View A&M and the county have a fraught history with voter registration issues. In a 1979 case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Prairie View students secured the right to
vote on the college campus without filling out a residency questionnair.
If this is what Texas police can do to a campaign official on a whim, just imagine the liberties they take on the daily and when confronted to people without the class or status to retract abusive arrests.
There's a good case to make that all policemen are power tripping sons of bitches. This level of irresponsibility probably goes to show the atmosphere of utter impunity in police forces across Texas.
If this cop doesn't get the slammer then Prairie View PD is officially not even trying to pretend they hold their pigs on a leash anymore. Let's see this.
Most cops are good people.
Some cops are good people but bad cops.
A slim minority are bad people and bad cops.
The failure of our police system doesn't lie with "all cops" or even "most cops", it's with our inability as a society to effectively deal with the small subgroup that mishandles or abuses their power.
fuck you thin blue line #maga
there's no conversation to be had when one side is screaming down at you from a high perch.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/10/11/307810/texas-congressional-candidates-staffer-cited-for-disturbing-peace/
This article states that the person in question was not arrested, but given a citation and told to appear in court.
The complaint also alleges that he was taking "excessive" photos and refusing to delete them, which given what I know of my own public buildings, probably violates a public code. (That is, most court houses and public offices have a strict "no photography" policy.)
When you use the word "pig" to describe a police officer, you basically invalidate any other point you're trying to make.
those policies almost certainly apply to inside not outside and under certain circumstances.
So you think Aarronowitz was standing outside snapping photos over and over of the clerk, saying "ha ha fascist the rules don't apply out here!" like some addled sovereign citizen playing Loopholes & Ladders?
I mean come on. This is like, exactly what Breach Of Peace charges are for, and I'd be surprised if this guy's trial is anything more than the judge giving him a warning.
Unless there's a credible reason to think the cops actually arrested him "because he's a democrat" and not because he was belligerently protesting, I have trouble imagining this is indicative of "power tripping sons of bitches" running some Dukes Of Hazard tier outfit.
Agreed, domestic pigs are sweet animals and don't deserve the comparison.
ya first reading I didn't catch that it was inside the court, though the intention was not malicious in nature either, its up to the judge's discression.
Oppression is all a matter of power of the top being used for wrong on down. An institution's deeds are a matter of those who hold power over others, and how they use such power. To scour institutional oppression is a matter of replacing corrupt holders of power. It requires work of a great many and the right few to make a better world.
That's strictly all police officer. The problem has less to do with the individuals, the job is cursed. Give this jobs enough years in your life and you too can turn into a human pile of garbage. No point in associating with people who voluntarily stay involved with this terror organization.
Is there some sort of story behind this viewpoint of yours?
You're right, let's get rid of police officers all together. Now what happens?
Quit talking out of your ass, you are beyond ignorant. Job isn't cursed, it has been improving for ages and the professionalism movement is continuing to improve. Why don't you actually go read up the history of policing and see what it was like just a few decades ago in the U.S.
You have a narrow worldview.
Maybe I'm the unlucky one for always finding the rudest cops whenever I'm out in town. I've seen people get tickets for public urination in places where all the toilets are consumer-only. I've seen people get put in the back of the truck for talking back to officers in plain clothes who didn't say bonjour
What I've yet to see is a police officer showing respect. Whenever there's a traffic jam they'll put on their sirens to get through and put it out like the emergency vanished. If you have ever been arrested you might know cops for asking indiscrete questions over and over again just for kicks. Their modo operandi goes like this: show up to the scene, insult everyone, demand respect, arrest anyone who does not submit to public humiliation.
I have heard too many stories of black and arab friends getting routinely fucked up by the same agents, and a common theme is that all officers will tow the line for them to get off scot free while getting the citizen they assault into custody.
It seems to me like the police is less of a public utility like firemen and the garbage truck and more of a protected class with juridical immunity that you can join by selling your soul to the devil. Cops get away with murder all the time, I'm not sure why anyone would trust them.
It's almost as if that's what the siren is for
Your post is a big collection of paranoid bullshit.
It's fucking not. The siren is for emergencies you idiot. Them using it as a way of skipping traffic when there's no pressing matter goes to show how fucking hot shit and more important than the populace they think they are. You are legally required to pull up to the side because these impatient assholes are too good to deal with traffic like regular drivers do.
Never have I smashed agree so fast. The Thin Blue Line mentality is holding back progress so much.
It is astounding to me how barely distinguishable the police (and really the justice system as a whole) has become from actual legit organized crime groups.
I'd love to hear your "good case" because if you don't actually have one then you're just some angsty frog.
You're going to have to be patient while I come up with a spin to explain this take to someone who thinks protesting against Islam in the US is defensible and that breaking a glass window actually hurts anyone at all. It's going to be quite a leap for me to bridge so hopefully you can keep the thread alive in the meantime and use this as an opportunity to occupy thread space with your own arguments to compensate for my mutliple posts in a single day.
Be right back, good luck.
You really have serious issues dude.
This is almost flat-earther levels of insane.
That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. I wonder why that is.
Yeah you're right, I prefer looking at things objectively.
It's not like they are doing it just to dicks. It's their job to respond to things as quickly as possible, and to observe as much as possible. Can't do either stuck in traffic.
I'm almost willing to bet they are told to do stuff like this in training, or at the PD.
Why does anyone think that people decide to not look at things "objectively"? Who honestly observes something and doesn't think to themselves that they are at least trying to see it without bias?
I think the point being made here is that the behavior of a well-oiled corrupt institution is always going to be demonstrated implicitly rather than overtly. Who's going to actually admit to mugging
someone with a gun if the public expects that person to be thrown in jail for doing so? What happens if they are the ones who are supposed to be doing the public that favor to begin with?
I don't think he understands that there are different levels of response. I can't remember the actual code designations (it was like 1-3), but one was no rush, another was rush but no lights or sirens, and the third was full lights and sirens. If they are doing the second, they obviously can't sit stuck in traffic for a long time, but shouldn't be running full lights and sirens.
... What the fuck are you talking about?
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